Supposedly mother of pearl makes caviar taste better. I eat my caviar off of bread or crackers so I am not the one to ask. I do use a mother of pearl butter knife to spread it, however, but it is an heirloom.

I first saw a touch-screen vending machine in Tokyo, and it was selling the same Pocari and cold tea as every other Japanese vending machine. Which is not a bad thing, but I remember wondering how they would be able to take full advantage of the touch-screen innovation given their fairly fixed inventory. It’s nice to see Beverley Hills really working the machine’s flexibility.